Don’t feel bad, old friend. When I nudge you to swim​what I mean is there is a galaxy between plank and shore.

Ben Giles.

Philip Schaefer’s debut collection of poems Bad Summon (University of Utah Press, 2017) won the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize, and he is the author of three chapbooks, two co-written with friend and poet Jeff Whitney. Schaefer won the 2016 Meridian Editor’s Prize in poetry and has work out or due out in Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Thrush Poetry Journal, Guernica, The Cincinnati Review, Salt Hill, Bat City Review, The Adroit Journal, Baltimore Review, diode, and Passages North, among others. He tends bar in Missoula, Montana.

Ben Giles is a multi-disciplinary artist who lives in Norwich, England. He was born in Bury St. Edmunds and studied in Kingston. Nature, metamorphosis, light, colour, collage, collaboration, juxtaposition, repetition, excitement, evolution, manipulation, music, television, improvisation, participation, and seduction are all components of his practice. Find out more at: http://benlewisgiles.format.com.